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Rosaiah flays Govt. for ignoring pensioners

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD Dec. 11. The PCC chief spokesperson, K. Rosaiah, here on Wednesday lashed out at the Government for not releasing DA arrears to pensioners despite repeated pleas from the retired employees.

Addressing a press conference, he said the plight of pensioners was worsening every day due to inflation. House rents, power tariff and price rise of all essential commodities were rendering life difficult for even those in service now. Medicare costs were shooting up beyond one's means and yet there was no compassion for those who had spent the best part of their life in the service of the Government.

Mr. Rosaiah said the previous Governments had continued the tradition of extending facilities like the DA hike and release of instalments to the pensioners which was being flouted now. Unfortunately the ruling party had grown so intolerant to even constructive criticism that it would adopt a rigid stand and give "irrelevant answers'' to the questions raised by the Opposition.

Mr. Rosaiah said the line adopted by the ruling party that the Opposition was `politicising' every issue had become illogical. The Opposition, particularly the Congress, was doing its duty in bringing the flaws in governance to the notice of the ruling party as well as people. His party did not need any tutoring from the TDP on the method of protests. Nor could the TDP expect its rival to extol the virtues of such "anti-people Government.''

The TDP rule at best had created a benchmark in "looting'' and "misappropriation'' and a new high in the rate of multiplicity of scams and the Congress was duty-bound to expose the misrule. None of the TD leaders had any moral right to criticise the Congress on this count and they could continue their "Chandra-bhajan'' at the NTR Bhavan non-stop. If the Government felt embarrassed by the corruption levels, it would have ordered a judicial enquiry into any of those multi-crore scams long ago, he said.

Vayalar Ravi coming

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) member and the AICC general secretary, Vayalar Ravi, who is in-charge of the State affairs, will be here on December 13 to hold a meeting with the senior party leaders to discuss the Warangal meet of the party to be attended by the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi.

The meeting has created a controversy within the party with the "inner- party democracy'' surfacing once again in the form of usual squabbles. The PCC president has sought to downplay the problem by claiming that the meeting was a party affair and would be held so with all leaders taking part in it while the BC leaders try to project it as their "achievement".

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